A New Prune— The Standard 
Years ago I had made the combination of the Tragedy and the Sugar 
I 'rune and now have at last (in my opinion and the opinion of a number of 
the best known growers) the best prune ever produced. The trees are 
enormous and never-failing bearers, and good, healthy growers. Well grown 
fruits measure four and a half inches around one way by nearly six inches 
the long way. Skin purple with a heavy blue bloom; flesh amber or honey 
yellow, fine grained, juicy yet firmer than most other drying prunes, very 
sweet and a perfect freestone. 
This is without doubt the best combination drying and shipping prune 
ever grown ; ripens September 1st and has been kept fully a month in good 
condition in a basket in an ordinary living-room during our warm Fall 
weather, and can be shipped when dead ripe with success to any part of 
the United States. And the final test as a prune is that when dipped a^ 
usual the result is a big quickly dried prune of better quality than any ever 
before known. I have no other and know of no other prune which com- 
pares with this in its wonderful combination of good qualities. 
"It has been tried in a commercial way now. for two years, and its possibilities 
as a high-grade prune have been established beyond a cjuestion of a doubt." 
University of California, College of Agriculture 
Agr. Experiment Station 
Berkeley, Calif. 
Examination of Tragedy X Sugar Prune (The "Standard") sample sent by Luther 
Burbank, Santa Rosa, California. 
Description by Prof. E. J. Wickson: — Freestone, Pil_small, 
llowish, melting, line grained; very juicy and sweet, 
dark red, medium texture. 
ANALYSIS 
: 5/ s ". Flesh 
Skin dark blue — sub-color 
Average 
The "Standard" French Prune 
Average weight in grams 49.7 2.16 
Number per pound 9.1 19.1 
Flesh, per cent 96.5 94.2 
Pit, pel' cent 3.5 5.8 
Sugar, per cent 18.9 L8.5 
(Signed) G. E. COLBY, 
Prof. Chemistry. 
By analysis it will be noticed that it excels the French Prune in every 
point. 
SELECTED WOOD FOR GRAFTING. 
Per foot, $2.00. Ten feet and over, $1.50 per foot. (Good firm wood 
and good measure.) 
Yearling trees, each $5.00. Ten or over, $4.00 each. 
For those who have orchards it is generally far better to use grafting 
